yay for boredom! during one of my many slashdot refreshes i came across an article
that linked to this
page. i was intrigued by how simple the mandelbrot set actually was, and
decided to make my own viewer.

i wrote the program from 9pm to 2am in one
sitting, so it's really not that high quality or special. i tried to beef it up
with some extra options but didn't really get too far. all i had time to
implement was:

zoom in by drawing a box on the screen

variable colors

variable precision

undo last view change

reset the view to the beginning

zoom out

realign in case you distort while zooming in

that's it. it's
actually pretty cool what kind of patterns you can find. if you come across any
that you're proud of, take a screen shot (with the print screen key) and send them to me!